Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4617
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004617
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dockrill, Francis Howard
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 13, 1893
10. AGE in Years77 Months11 Days12 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry NS Light & Power Ltd.
13. Date last worked 1956 14. Total years 40
15. If married name of spouse Bertha Ann Dockrill
16. NAME of Father Walter J. Dockrill
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Gertrude Crocker
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Redge F. Dockrill
address 10 Idlewylde Rd, Hfx, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville, NS
Date of burial July 27, 1971
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma of Prostate with Metastases
(b) Chronic Lung Disease
(c)
other
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